Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.